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  • Cyber Defense Competitions

    Running a Cyber Defense Competition in AWS

    July 25, 2019

    My blog post on the AWS Internal blog site can be read here.

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  • DevOps,  Raspberry Pi

    Kubernetes: Easy as (Raspberry) Pi

    April 12, 2019

    I’ve been using AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and Docker for desktop which also has Kubernetes, but I realized I’ve never actually built a Kubernetes cluster from scratch. So I decided to build one on a Raspberry Pi cluster. Why you ask? Because it looks way cooler sitting on my desk then just doing it in vSphere and I can post pictures. If you would like to build your own Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Cluster, this is how I did it. What I used: 4 – Raspberry PI Model 3 B 1 – Sabrent 5 port USB Power 1 – Trendnet 5 poer Ethernet switch 1 – iUniker Raspberry Pi Cluster…

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  • Cyber Defense Competitions,  Solutions Architecture

    I was featured in a bonus episode of Palo Alto Network’s Learning Happy Hour

    April 4, 2019

    In this bonus episode of the Learning Happy Hour, Mitch and Jason from Palo Alto Network interview me about what it takes to design and run PRCCDC.

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  • Cyber Defense Competitions,  DevOps,  Solutions Architecture

    Cyber Defense Competition in AWS v2.0 (with a touch of DevOps)

    March 27, 2019

    After successfully running ICCDI 2018 (International Collegiate Cyber Defense Invitational) in AWS, we decided we were ready to go for the big one – PRCCDC 2019 (Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition). In 2013 we were the first regional CCDC to virtualize the competition going from a bare metal server/network infrastructure to VMware vSphere. Prior to virtualizing the competition the blue teams had physical Cisco routers and switches but in the virtualized world these were replaced by easily virtualized firewall/router products such as VYOS and eventually Palo Alto networks in 2016 when they came on as a national sponsor. Running the competition in VMware over the last six years became…

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  • Cyber Defense Competitions,  DevOps,  Solutions Architecture

    Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of chess? – Designing and Running a Cyber Defense Competition in AWS

    July 16, 2018

    In July 2018 Highline College and Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) hosted the 3rd annual International Collegiate Cyber Defense Invitational (ICCDI). In 2017 the competition was held on the Highline College campus in Des Moines, WA and all participating colleges save one competed on campus. Eight students from Politeknik Negeri Medan in Indonesia competed remotely. The competition was run on Highline’s VMware infrastructure and the team in Indonesia connected via VPN and accessed the game environment through VMware Horizon virtual desktops. For the 2018 competition we would have teams of students at Highline and at NUST s well as Indonesia competing remotely again. With teams in at least three different…

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  • Cyber Defense Competitions,  Raspberry Pi

    Using a Raspberry Pi to Make Students Miserable

    April 3, 2018

    The scenario for the 2018 Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (PRCCDC) was a power company SCADA system called Scadacs. The blue teams, made up of 8 students from different colleges,  had to keep a simulated SCADA network up and running while defending against a group of professional penetration testers, the red team. But we felt it wasn’t enough for the students to be victim of data loss and website defacements, if the red team got into their system they could literally shut off the power. At first I had the idea that if they are managing a SCADA system we need something more than a collection of servers simulating that…

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  • Jul 25, 2019 Running a Cyber Defense Competition in AWS
  • Apr 12, 2019 Kubernetes: Easy as (Raspberry) Pi
  • Apr 04, 2019 I was featured in a bonus episode of Palo Alto Network’s Learning Happy Hour
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